NEW DELHI: The Indian passenger car segment has registered marginal growth of 0.45 percent for the month of October 2016 and sold 195,036 units in the domestic market, according to data released by industry body Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM). When it came to ten best selling passenger cars in India Maruti Suzuki’s Alto tops the list.After posting positive sales growth in September, Alto came back to negative zone in October and shrank by 18 percent to 18,854 units. For eight consecutive months from January-August 2016, Alto reported negative sales growth.

Maruti Suzuki’s Dzire comes after Alto, and for the eleventh consecutive month it scored negative sales growth at 15,201 units. Its sales were down by 28 percent in October 2016.

Maruti Suzuki’s WagonR ranked third in the top ten selling cars list, with sales increasing from 14,734 units during October 2015 to 15,075 units in Oct 2016, thereby registering a growth of 2 percent.

Maruti Suzuki India has been performing quite well with Celerio mainly due to consumer preferences for automated manual transmission (AMT) technology.

The company’s Swift, ranked fourth in the list and witnessed a decrease in sales for twelfth consecutive month in October. It sold 14,611 units, 3,058 units less than sold in October 2015. The car recorded positive sales growth in the month of October 2015.

The fifth and sixth positions are occupied by Hyundai Motor India’s Grand i10 and Elite i20, respectively. Their sales experienced a growth of 3 percent and 5 percent, respectively. After posting negative sales growth in September 2016, Hyundai Elite i20 again came back to positive zone in October.

Commenting on the October sales figures, Y K Koo, MD & CEO of Hyundai Motor India, said, “Hyundai, with a highest-ever domestic volume of 50,016 units, registered record cumulative sales of 64,372 units in October 2016. Hyundai achieved the highest and fastest domestic sales of 50,000 units mark within 15 months from the earlier milestone of 40,000 units.”

Next in rank came, Maruti Suzuki’s Baleno whose sales jumped 153 percent, and stood at 10,718 units. It’s been one year that the hatchback has been launched and since then it has continued to impress consumers.

During October 2016, Maruti Suzuki also announced that it is going to launch Baleno in new markets, including Caribbean Islands and South Africa, in the coming months as part of its plans to export the model to over 100 countries.

The eighth bestselling car, during October, was Renault’s Kwid. It sold 9,801 units, thereby experiencing a growth of 89 percent. Kwid has come as a boon for Renault India, since its launch in the country 13 months back in September 2015. Kwid has placed the carmaker in seventh position in the global market in terms of sales volume during the period January-August 2016 from eighteenth in the same period a year ago.

Maruti Suzuki India has been performing quite well with Celerio mainly due to consumer preferences for automated manual transmission (AMT) technology. It sold 9,581 units in October 2016, as against 6,664 units during the same month previous year, a growth of 44 percent.

Honda City, positioned at tenth slot, recorded 9 percent decrease in October sales and stood at 6,378 units. When compared with the October 2015 sales, Honda City dropped down to tenth position from the seventh position. Post October 2015, Honda Cars India has been posting decline in sales for twelfth consecutive months.

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